Is my PSU good enough for Gainward Radeon HD 4870 1GB Golden Sample?

WojtasRed · Mar 30, 2009

Could you tell me?

Code:

Be Quiet 430W (28A).

alexp999 · Mar 30, 2009

Never heard of be quiet. Is the 28A for the whole thing or just 12v?

WojtasRed · Mar 30, 2009

For whole thing (2rails x 20A).

alexp999 · Mar 30, 2009

Well 20A across each 12v rail is very good and fine for a 4870.

But I'd wait to find out if anyone knows about the manufacturer.

WojtasRed · Mar 30, 2009

That`s the point. I can`t find this information, that`s why I`m asking you

alexp999 · Mar 30, 2009

Is it a dark series?

A bit of googling says they're not too bad, and the Dark series are very good.

Jansku07 · Mar 30, 2009

The brand name appears to be owned by Listan GmbH und Co. KG of Germany, which also distributes other computer component brands such as Cooler Master, Arctic Cooling, Zalman, AeroCool and MB/Papst fans. It also offers a line of products such as fans, cases, case accessories, water and air cooling, and cables under the name of Revoltec (Revolution Technology). The brand appears to be fairly well distributed in the EU, but not in North America, where search engines turned up no retail visibility.

http://www.silentpcreview.com/article677-page1.html According to reviews I've seen in the net it's a europe-only brand, which makes reasonably good PSUs. Not known to Americans because of this.

WojtasRed · Mar 30, 2009

Yeah, it`s Dark Power Pro (BQT P6-430W). Is this enough for Gainward Radeon HD 4870 1GB Golden Sample? I mean 12v rails (28A whole).

Power consumption on load is 304W

Code:

http://www.bit-tech.net/hardware/graphics/2008/11/18/gainward-radeon-hd-4870-1gb-golden-sample/11

alexp999 · Mar 30, 2009

I'd say you'll be fine, Dark Series seem to get good comments

kyle2020 · Mar 30, 2009

Be Quiet PSU's are mass advertised in CustomPC, and they get raving reviews - Id say you'll be fine.

EnglishLion · Mar 30, 2009

You''l be just fine - do you have the required PCIe power connectors?

WojtasRed · Mar 30, 2009

Yeah, I`ve got two 6-pin power VGA connectors

So 28A and 430W will be enough?

alexp999 · Mar 30, 2009

Definetly

WojtasRed · Apr 5, 2009

I wanna hear others voices about this. please

Reventon · Apr 5, 2009

I am running an ASUS EAH4850HD 512MB on a 400W Corsair PSU. Never let me down as of yet.

Here's everything I'm running on it, just to give you an idea:
AMD 64 X2 6400+ 3.2Ghz Black Edition dual-core
4GB (2x2GB) DDR2 RAM 667Mhz
ASUS 4850HD 512MB
ECS Iris 1.0 Motherboard
1 LightScribe DVD/CD-ROM Drive
1 Seagate 120GB Hard Drive
Corsair 400W PSU

I play games on max settings all of the time. Always seems to work. I think you'd be fine.

Altered · Apr 5, 2009

Im running the ASUS 4870HD DK TOP 512MB with a Ultra X3 600W and now with a Corsair 650W with no issues.

I think if the PSU is decent it should be no problem.

Kenshai · Apr 5, 2009

How old is your power supply? Depending you may not want to due to capacitor aging. My old Antec Truepower 2.0 480 was holding up for a bit til it just shut down one day and decided that was it and just killed itself, bit of smoke and it was gone. Overclocked E6750 @3.6 and a standard 4870 clocked a bit higher.

Just something to think about

WojtasRed · Apr 5, 2009

BeQuiet! is a great mark

But 28A will be enough for 4870 1gb GoldSample?

erocker · Apr 5, 2009

I say you are borderline. With your system moderately overclocked, it's going to pull more than 400W at the wall. When I had a Q6600/4870 (all oc'd) it would pull around 480W at startup alone. BeQuiet PSU's are quite nice though, but I would opt for something in the 500W+ range.

mav2000 · Apr 5, 2009

Id say get a new PSU, like erocker said, its pretty much on the border with that PSU, u may actually run nice and have no problems, but u may also end up with a fried PSU and some other parts too. SO my suggestion is get atleast a 550-600 w PSU from Corsair or Tagan or any of the other good names around.

WojtasRed · Apr 5, 2009

I`ll not overclock my CPU...
Is 28A enough for this card. Cuz wattage is fine (about 350W in peak with P 9850).

Processor	AMD Phenom II 720 3x2,8 GHz BE
Motherboard	MSI 870A Fuzion A770 SAM3
Cooling	Scythe Zipang SCZP-1000
Memory	Crucial 4GB DDR3 1600MHz Ballistix Sport CL9
Video Card(s)	PALIT GeForce GTX 560Ti 1GB
Storage	TOSHIBA 1000GB 32MB 3,5'' 7200 SATA III
Display(s)	Gateway FPD2275W `22
Case	Shinobi SH09A
Power Supply	Thermaltake Toughpower W0116 750W
Software	Windows 7 Ultimate 64bit

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Storage	2x WD6400AAKS 1 TB Raid 0, 140GB Raid 1 & 80GB Maxtor Basics External HDD (storage) \| 160GB 2.5"
Display(s)	Samsung SyncMaster SM2433BW @ 1920 x 1200 via DVI-D \| 15.4" WSXGA+ (1680 x 1050 resolution)
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Benchmark Scores	3DM06: 19519, Vantage: P16170 ~ Win7: -CPU 7.5 -MEM 7.5 -AERO 7.9 -GFX 6.0 -HDD 6.0

Processor	AMD Phenom II 720 3x2,8 GHz BE
Motherboard	MSI 870A Fuzion A770 SAM3
Cooling	Scythe Zipang SCZP-1000
Memory	Crucial 4GB DDR3 1600MHz Ballistix Sport CL9
Video Card(s)	PALIT GeForce GTX 560Ti 1GB
Storage	TOSHIBA 1000GB 32MB 3,5'' 7200 SATA III
Display(s)	Gateway FPD2275W `22
Case	Shinobi SH09A
Power Supply	Thermaltake Toughpower W0116 750W
Software	Windows 7 Ultimate 64bit

System Name	Gaming Rig \| Uni Laptop
Processor	Intel Q6600 G0 (2007) @ 3.6Ghz @ 1.45625v (LLC) / 4 GHz Bench @ 1.63v \| AMD Turion 64 X2 TL-62 2 GHz
Motherboard	ASUS P5Q Deluxe (Intel P45) \| HP 6715b
Cooling	Xigmatek Dark Knight w/AC MX2 ~ Case Fans: 2 x 180mm + 1 x 120mm Silverstone Fans
Memory	4GB OCZ Platinum PC2-8000 @ 1000Mhz 5-5-5-15 2.1v \| 2 x 1GB DDR2 667 MHz
Video Card(s)	XFX GTX 285 1GB, Modded FTW BIOS @ 725/1512/1350 w/Accelero Xtreme GTX 280 + Scythe sinks\| ATI X1250
Storage	2x WD6400AAKS 1 TB Raid 0, 140GB Raid 1 & 80GB Maxtor Basics External HDD (storage) \| 160GB 2.5"
Display(s)	Samsung SyncMaster SM2433BW @ 1920 x 1200 via DVI-D \| 15.4" WSXGA+ (1680 x 1050 resolution)
Case	Silverstone Fortress FT01B-W ~ Logitech G15 R1 / Microsoft Laser Mouse 6000
Audio Device(s)	Soundmax AD2000BX Onboard Sound, via Logitech X-230 2.1 \| ADI SoundMAX HD Audio
Power Supply	Corsair TX650W \| HP 90W
Software	Windows 7 Ultimate Build 7100 x64 \| Windows 7 Ultimate Build 7100 x64
Benchmark Scores	3DM06: 19519, Vantage: P16170 ~ Win7: -CPU 7.5 -MEM 7.5 -AERO 7.9 -GFX 6.0 -HDD 6.0

Processor	AMD Phenom II 720 3x2,8 GHz BE
Motherboard	MSI 870A Fuzion A770 SAM3
Cooling	Scythe Zipang SCZP-1000
Memory	Crucial 4GB DDR3 1600MHz Ballistix Sport CL9
Video Card(s)	PALIT GeForce GTX 560Ti 1GB
Storage	TOSHIBA 1000GB 32MB 3,5'' 7200 SATA III
Display(s)	Gateway FPD2275W `22
Case	Shinobi SH09A
Power Supply	Thermaltake Toughpower W0116 750W
Software	Windows 7 Ultimate 64bit

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